The Discovery of George Mallory’s Body on Everest in 1999
When Edmund Hillary stepped onto the summit of Mount Everest at 11.30 on 29th May 1953 he didn’t admire the view, or dance a jig of triumph. No, he reported that the first thing he did was to look for traces of George Mallory and Sandy Irvine. The mystery of what happened to Mallory and … Read more